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Jazz for aficionados

Jazz for aficionados

I'm going to review records in my collection, and you'll be able to decide if they're worthy of your collection. These records are what I consider "must haves" for any jazz aficionado, and would be found in their collections. I wont review any record that's not on CD, nor will I review any record if the CD is markedly inferior. Fortunately, I only found 1 case where the CD was markedly inferior to the record.

Our first album is "Moanin" by Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers. We have Lee Morgan , trumpet; Benney Golson, tenor sax; Bobby Timmons, piano; Jymie merrit, bass; Art Blakey, drums.

The title tune "Moanin" is by Bobby Timmons, it conveys the emotion of the title like no other tune I've ever heard, even better than any words could ever convey. This music pictures a person whose down to his last nickel, and all he can do is "moan".

"Along Came Betty" is a tune by Benny Golson, it reminds me of a Betty I once knew. She was gorgeous with a jazzy personality, and she moved smooth and easy, just like this tune. Somebody find me a time machine! Maybe you knew a Betty.

While the rest of the music is just fine, those are my favorite tunes. Why don't you share your, "must have" jazz albums with us.

Enjoy the music.
orpheus10
orpheus10 OP
5,988 posts
 

Although I've mentioned this before, I don't believe I communicated how extreme the relationship between movie and music was.

I heard this music in 1960, but did not see the movie until say 2010; to make the math easy, it is a difference of 50 years. When I heard the music, I didn't think too much of it, but now I realize how devastating it is. Fortunately, I can provide a link of the movie with the music, and you can decide, and see how intrinsically they are wound together.




        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wc4tT-55ZzI


        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icJw9HXXoXA




Enjoy the music.
frogman
4,637 posts
 
Good performances and great movie, Alex (the movie is about a saxophone player, after all 😎), but I don't think those two tunes qualify as adaptations of "music from a movie".  Both tunes were written over thirty years before they appeared in the soundtrack to "Some Like It Hot".  They were not written for the movie.  While I  can't think of examples, I would wager that the tunes also appeared in movies done before SLIH (1959).  
jafant
10,525 posts
 
Many Thanks! O-10

yes there are several small, desolate towns in Texas.
I enjoyed those Donald Byrd clips.
orpheus10 OP
5,988 posts
 

This is a pleasant sounding guitarist we haven't even touched;


      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jot-YsjE01k


Enjoy the music.
acman3
2,267 posts
 
I never knew he did film scores

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-sdcwPzbx4
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